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Report number arXiv:2105.02840
Title Dark Matter as dark dwarfs and other macroscopic objects: multiverse relics?
Author(s) Gross, Christian (Pisa U.) ; Landini, Giacomo (Pisa U.) ; Strumia, Alessandro (Pisa U.) ; Teresi, Daniele (CERN)
Publication 2021-09-06
Imprint 2021-05-06
Number of pages 23
Note 23 pages, 4 figures
In: JHEP 2109 (2021) 033
DOI 10.1007/JHEP09(2021)033
Subject category hep-th ; Particle Physics - Theory ; astro-ph.CO ; Astrophysics and Astronomy ; hep-ph ; Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract First-order phase transitions can leave relic pockets of false vacua and their particles, that manifest as macroscopic Dark Matter. We compute one predictive model: a gauge theory with a dark quark relic heavier than the confinement scale. During the first-order phase transition to confinement, dark quarks remain in the false vacuum and get compressed, forming Fermi balls that can undergo gravitational collapse to stable dark dwarfs (bound states analogous to white dwarfs) near the Chandrasekhar limit, or to primordial black holes.
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